Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,519 6,315 6,766
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.52% 22.91% 20.62%
As % of the General category 33.27% 35.54% 35.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,329 4,231 4,486
10th Percentile £360 £338 £365
25th Percentile £450 £415 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% -2.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £788 £801 £848
UK median daily rate £550 £535 £575
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.96% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 100 133
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.48 £14.50
25th Percentile £20.96 £19.38 £23.82
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.79 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.77% -12.03% +36.13%
75th Percentile - £63.49 £54.00
90th Percentile £75.82 £80.25 £70.14
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £29.27 £33.25
% change year-on-year +50.19% -11.97% +29.33%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 25,608 17,771 19,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.67% 64.48% 58.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,098 11,246 11,725
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £424 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,164 1,009 997
10th Percentile £13.65 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.11 £16.17 £17.50
Median hourly rate £31.13 £25.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.77% -34.68% +40.00%
75th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.65 £70.38 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £37.00
% change year-on-year +19.13% -32.03% +34.55%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 14 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 5,159 £585 - 13,266
North of England 0 1,330 £509 +10.60% 2,196
South East -2 729 £500 -2.91% 2,126
North West -1 660 £500 +11.11% 1,275
Midlands -1 609 £500 +6.61% 1,161
Yorkshire 0 589 £515 +5.10% 687
West Midlands +1 455 £514 +2.80% 720
South West -7 349 £550 -4.35% 1,105
East of England +2 218 £555 -0.22% 734
East Midlands -4 151 £500 +19.76% 441
North East -6 74 £500 +14.29% 263
South Coast - 1 £450 -
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 292 (3.43%) Confluence
2 239 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 84 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
4 72 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 56 (0.66%) Apache
6 43 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.34%) CMS
8 25 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
9 23 (0.27%) SAS
10 16 (0.19%) Camunda
11 15 (0.18%) IIS
11 15 (0.18%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.094%) CICS
13 6 (0.070%) Appian
13 6 (0.070%) Ethereum
13 6 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 6 (0.070%) WebLogic
14 5 (0.059%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.059%) WordPress
15 4 (0.047%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 465 (5.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 190 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
3 176 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 136 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
5 72 (0.85%) MS Visio
6 55 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
7 27 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.094%) Trello
9 7 (0.082%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.082%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.047%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.047%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.047%) Sketch
11 3 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.035%) Final Cut Pro
11 3 (0.035%) Notion
11 3 (0.035%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.023%) EngageOne
13 1 (0.012%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 328 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 114 (1.34%) Oracle Payables
3 102 (1.20%) NetSuite
4 95 (1.12%) Oracle Receivables
5 83 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
6 71 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
7 61 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
8 57 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
9 46 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
10 43 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 38 (0.45%) SAP FI
12 36 (0.42%) Workday HCM
13 35 (0.41%) Unit4 Business World
14 31 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
15 29 (0.34%) Aladdin
16 27 (0.32%) SAP CO
17 24 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
18 23 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
18 23 (0.27%) SAP BRIM
19 22 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1,375 (16.14%) Azure
2 943 (11.07%) AWS
3 599 (7.03%) Power Platform
4 459 (5.39%) GCP
5 311 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
6 289 (3.39%) SaaS
7 283 (3.32%) GitHub
8 282 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
9 224 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
10 205 (2.41%) Entra ID
11 191 (2.24%) Snowflake
12 140 (1.64%) Serverless
13 121 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
14 117 (1.37%) dbt
15 115 (1.35%) Power Automate
16 108 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
16 108 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
17 103 (1.21%) Amazon S3
18 100 (1.17%) OCI
19 95 (1.12%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 156 (1.83%) Firewall
2 133 (1.56%) Network Security
3 100 (1.17%) VPN
4 77 (0.90%) DNS
5 54 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 48 (0.56%) DHCP
7 47 (0.55%) WAN
8 42 (0.49%) BGP
9 37 (0.43%) SSL
10 34 (0.40%) VLAN
11 32 (0.38%) Multicast
12 28 (0.33%) Wireless
13 26 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
14 25 (0.29%) HTTP
15 24 (0.28%) LAN
16 23 (0.27%) OSPF
17 22 (0.26%) SAN
18 21 (0.25%) Internet
19 14 (0.16%) Broadband
19 14 (0.16%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 490 (5.75%) Power BI
2 259 (3.04%) SQL Server
3 231 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
4 166 (1.95%) Metadata
5 147 (1.73%) Relational Database
6 119 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
7 115 (1.35%) Data Lake
8 99 (1.16%) Tableau
9 76 (0.89%) NoSQL
10 65 (0.76%) BigQuery
11 64 (0.75%) Oracle Database
12 59 (0.69%) MongoDB
13 58 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
14 54 (0.63%) Power Query
15 51 (0.60%) Delta Lake
16 44 (0.52%) Big Data
17 43 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
18 37 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
19 35 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 33 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 583 (6.84%) JIRA
2 252 (2.96%) Git
3 154 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 98 (1.15%) GitLab
5 52 (0.61%) Selenium
6 44 (0.52%) JUnit
7 33 (0.39%) SonarQube
8 31 (0.36%) Bitbucket
9 29 (0.34%) Maven
9 29 (0.34%) REST Assured
9 29 (0.34%) Visual Studio
10 27 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
11 26 (0.31%) Claude Code
11 26 (0.31%) Cucumber
12 25 (0.29%) Gradle
13 23 (0.27%) ERwin
14 21 (0.25%) Cypress.io
15 18 (0.21%) Zephyr
16 17 (0.20%) Postman
17 16 (0.19%) ER Studio
General
1 2,658 (31.20%) Social Skills
2 1,788 (20.99%) Banking
3 1,246 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
4 439 (5.15%) Public Sector
5 426 (5.00%) Legal
6 368 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
7 343 (4.03%) Retail
8 334 (3.92%) Investment Banking
9 306 (3.59%) Front Office
10 294 (3.45%) Financial Institution
11 293 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
12 184 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 180 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
14 166 (1.95%) Manufacturing
15 154 (1.81%) Marketing
16 153 (1.80%) General Ledger
17 143 (1.68%) Billing
18 141 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
19 135 (1.58%) Local Government
20 129 (1.51%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,248 (14.65%) Analyst
2 965 (11.33%) Senior
3 873 (10.25%) Lead
4 846 (9.93%) Developer
5 750 (8.80%) Architect
6 622 (7.30%) Business Analyst
7 589 (6.91%) Project Manager
8 565 (6.63%) Consultant
9 284 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
10 268 (3.15%) Data Engineer
11 232 (2.72%) Financial Analyst
12 203 (2.38%) Senior Manager
13 177 (2.08%) Senior Developer
14 174 (2.04%) Data Analyst
15 172 (2.02%) Java Developer
16 169 (1.98%) IT Manager
17 168 (1.97%) Programme Manager
18 164 (1.93%) Accountant
19 161 (1.89%) Finance Manager
20 143 (1.68%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (3.84%) Terraform
2 325 (3.82%) REST
3 255 (2.99%) .NET
4 224 (2.63%) Kafka
5 219 (2.57%) Oracle Fusion
6 218 (2.56%) React
7 163 (1.91%) Spring
8 161 (1.89%) Spring Boot
9 159 (1.87%) Middleware
10 132 (1.55%) PySpark
11 116 (1.36%) RESTful
12 83 (0.97%) OAuth
13 80 (0.94%) JSON
13 80 (0.94%) XML
14 77 (0.90%) Redux
15 70 (0.82%) Node.js
15 70 (0.82%) SOAP
16 69 (0.81%) AngularJS
17 65 (0.76%) HTML
18 61 (0.72%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 467 (5.48%) Onboarding
2 451 (5.29%) Product Ownership
3 382 (4.48%) Cloud Native
4 236 (2.77%) Management Information System
5 214 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
6 210 (2.47%) Data Structures
7 174 (2.04%) Virtual Team
8 170 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
9 168 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
10 166 (1.95%) AI Agents
11 158 (1.85%) Derivative
12 152 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 150 (1.76%) Data Centre
14 126 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
15 114 (1.34%) Fixed Income
15 114 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
16 100 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
17 96 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
18 95 (1.12%) Equities
19 87 (1.02%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 341 (4.00%) Windows
2 266 (3.12%) Linux
3 136 (1.60%) Unix
4 77 (0.90%) Windows Server
5 52 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 38 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 35 (0.41%) Android
9 31 (0.36%) Solaris
10 28 (0.33%) Mac OS
10 28 (0.33%) zOS
11 11 (0.13%) Ubuntu
12 10 (0.12%) AIX
13 8 (0.094%) Oracle Linux
13 8 (0.094%) VMS
14 6 (0.070%) HPUX
14 6 (0.070%) SUSE
15 4 (0.047%) CentOS
15 4 (0.047%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.035%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,265 (26.59%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,786 (20.96%) Agile
3 1,150 (13.50%) Migration
4 1,146 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
5 1,126 (13.22%) AI
6 1,041 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 993 (11.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 967 (11.35%) CI/CD
9 895 (10.51%) Analytics
10 884 (10.38%) DevOps
11 838 (9.84%) Decision-Making
12 824 (9.67%) ERP
13 774 (9.09%) Roadmaps
14 743 (8.72%) Validation
15 691 (8.11%) Project Management
16 665 (7.81%) Data Modelling
17 657 (7.71%) Change Management
18 643 (7.55%) User Acceptance Testing
19 599 (7.03%) Risk Management
20 585 (6.87%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,171 (13.75%) SQL
2 1,055 (12.38%) Python
3 558 (6.55%) Java
4 341 (4.00%) C#
5 265 (3.11%) PowerShell
6 225 (2.64%) JavaScript
7 201 (2.36%) TypeScript
8 132 (1.55%) Bash
9 100 (1.17%) PL/SQL
10 81 (0.95%) Shell Script
11 62 (0.73%) C++
11 62 (0.73%) T-SQL
12 61 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 56 (0.66%) Bicep
14 46 (0.54%) Korn
15 38 (0.45%) Go
16 36 (0.42%) Scala
16 36 (0.42%) VBA
17 34 (0.40%) Kotlin
18 33 (0.39%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 683 (8.02%) Security Cleared
2 658 (7.72%) Degree
3 489 (5.74%) SC Cleared
4 237 (2.78%) PMP
5 205 (2.41%) PMI Certification
6 200 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 184 (2.16%) ACCA
8 160 (1.88%) CIMA
9 131 (1.54%) CISSP
10 127 (1.49%) DV Cleared
11 121 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
12 103 (1.21%) Azure Certification
13 79 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
14 71 (0.83%) CISM
15 64 (0.75%) Master's Degree
16 60 (0.70%) AWS Certification
17 48 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
18 43 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 43 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 35 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 610 (7.16%) Data Quality
2 373 (4.38%) QA
3 324 (3.80%) PMO
4 198 (2.32%) GDPR
5 131 (1.54%) NIST
6 110 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 98 (1.15%) Accessibility
7 98 (1.15%) GRC
8 92 (1.08%) IFRS
9 82 (0.96%) SLA
10 66 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 53 (0.62%) ISO 20022
12 48 (0.56%) GAAP
13 37 (0.43%) PCI DSS
14 34 (0.40%) Solvency II
15 31 (0.36%) SEPA
16 26 (0.31%) COBIT
17 24 (0.28%) MiFID
18 19 (0.22%) WCAG
19 18 (0.21%) P3O
System Software
1 240 (2.82%) Docker
2 219 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 76 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 26 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.21%) RACF
6 17 (0.20%) vSphere
7 14 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.12%) NFS
10 8 (0.094%) IAG
11 6 (0.070%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.047%) ACF2
13 4 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.035%) GPFS
14 3 (0.035%) GridGain
14 3 (0.035%) KVM
15 2 (0.023%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 402 (4.72%) Kubernetes
2 157 (1.84%) Ansible
3 87 (1.02%) Grafana
4 73 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 63 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 62 (0.73%) SCCM
7 55 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (0.31%) Control-M
8 26 (0.31%) Progress Chef
9 18 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
10 15 (0.18%) Argo
11 14 (0.16%) OMEGAMON
12 11 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 11 (0.13%) Puppet
13 10 (0.12%) HP ALM
13 10 (0.12%) Packer
13 10 (0.12%) vRealize
14 9 (0.11%) FortiGate
14 9 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
15 8 (0.094%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,260 (14.79%) Microsoft
2 743 (8.72%) Oracle
3 667 (7.83%) SAP
4 327 (3.84%) ServiceNow
5 317 (3.72%) Databricks
6 218 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 191 (2.24%) Google
8 149 (1.75%) IBM
9 124 (1.46%) VMware
10 118 (1.39%) Workday
11 109 (1.28%) Cisco
12 106 (1.24%) Splunk
13 80 (0.94%) CyberArk
14 76 (0.89%) OpenAI
15 63 (0.74%) Ariba
16 56 (0.66%) Bloomberg
17 51 (0.60%) Citrix
18 50 (0.59%) Murex
19 44 (0.52%) Red Hat
19 44 (0.52%) Sage